How to Make Apple Pound Cake
We are going to get to this delicious Apple Pound Cake but first, do you ever have one of those days where you just feel a little bit defeated, a little bit battle weary, and you kinda just want to hide in a hole?
We all have those from time to time, they’re par for the course of us being humans. I’m grateful for those days, though, because going through them helps me to be able to recognize when someone else is going through somethin’ – and that is when I can be the most helpful.
You know the great thing about that? It takes so little to perk someone right up. A sincere smile with eye contact, someone taking the time to give you a hug and say “Hey, hang in there, this too shall pass.”
The tiniest gesture from a good hearted person can shine through like a solar flare when you’re feeling a little darkness in your heart. .
Be the person you need for someone else today.
And now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, on to apples and this Apple Pound Cake recipe 🙂
Old Fashioned And Fabulous
This is an old fashioned cake that really has the texture and taste of a pound cake with apple-y goodness tossed in. Although the traditional ingredients for pound cake aren’t there – there is far less sugar and no butter, you’ll still get the feel and taste of pound cake with the dense moistness.
The apple pound cake itself is clean and simple in flavor, just slightly sweet and not enough to fight the apples for the main attraction. This is a great treat to have with coffee or as an afternoon snack. Wouldn’t blame ya if you had it for breakfast too!
Ingredients for Apple Pound Cake
You’ll need:
- Sugar
- Vegetable oil,
- Orange juice,
- Baking powder,
- Vanilla,
- Eggs,
- All purpose flour
- Cinnamon,
- About five medium sized apples. I’m using a mix of Gala and Granny Smith but whatever you have will work just fine.
- Place sugar, flour, eggs, baking powder, oil, vanilla, and orange juice in a large mixing bowl.
- Blend with an electric mixer until smooth and well blended.
- In a small bowl or cup, combine sugar (see exact amounts at bottom of this recipe) and cinnamon.
- Stir them together until they’re mixed up good.
- Grease the living daylights out of your bundt pan.
Last week my friend Jyl got her first ever bundt pan and called to tell me about it. I was kind of surprised she hadn’t had one before because I think they’re just the bees knees. She asked if I greased mine with shortening and flour or if I just used cooking spray.
I replied “I never use cooking spray in my bundt pan, I always use crisco and flour to make sure it comes out of the pan easily.” I really truly thought I was telling the truth because in my head, that is what I do. Then I started doing this tutorial and reached for the baking spray and sprayed this pan until it cried uncle – and I felt bad because I realized that I hadn’t been truthful with Jyl.
So Jyl, I’m sorry. I was telling you the best way to do it – I just prefer the lazy way 🙂
Back to the Apple Pound Cake Recipe
- Pour in half of your cake batter and top with half of your chopped apples.
- Generously sprinkle those with half of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Then top with the rest of your cake batter.
- Now add the rest of your apples to the top and sprinkle them with the remainder of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Bake at 350 for about an hour to an hour and ten minutes.
This is what it looks like after about fifteen minutes.
It was pretty cool looking so I took a photo in case any of y’all are as easily amused as I am.
Whoops! Is that the oven timer?
Our cake is done!
- Allow to cool in pan for ten minutes before turning out to cool completely.
- Before serving, dust with confectioner’s sugar.
Enjoy this dense, moist, and lightly sweet cake 🙂
Please note: This is not a really sweet cake, it is more filling like a coffee or pound cake. If you’re looking for a sweeter apple cake, I suggest trying Apple Dapple Cake. Actually, the best thing you could do is make both!
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Ingredients
Cake
- 3 cups all purpose plain flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 4 eggs
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
Filling
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cinnamon
- 5 medium apples peeled and chopped
Instructions
- Generously grease a bundt pan and preheat oven to 350.
- Combine all cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix with electric mixer until well blended and smooth.
- Pour half of batter into bundt pan. Top with half of chopped apples.
- Stir together 1/2 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons cinnamon. Sprinkle 1/2 of this over the apples.
- Pour remaining batter over apples and top this with remaining apples and remaining cinnamon sugar.
- Bake at 350 for 1 hour to 1 hour, 10 minutes. Allow to cool in pan for ten minutes before turning out to cool completely.
- Dust generously with confectioner's sugar before serving.
Nutrition
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